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Data Analysis in Community and Landscape Ecology
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Ecological data has several special properties: the presence or absence of species on a semi-quantitative abundance scale; non-linear relationships between species and environmental factors; and high inter-correlations among species and among environmental variables. The analysis of such data is important to the interpretation of relationships within plant and animal communities and with their environments. In this corrected version of Data Analysis in Community and Landscape Ecology, without using complex mathematics, the contributors demonstrate the methods that have proven most useful, with examples, exercises and case-studies. Chapters explain in an elementary way powerful data analysis techniques such as logic regression, canonical correspondence analysis, and kriging.
6 - Cluster analysis
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Introduction
Aims and use
For ecological data, cluster analysis is a type of analysis that classifies sites, species or variables. Classification is intrinsic in observation: people observe objects or phenomena, compare them with other, earlier, observations and then assign them a name. Therefore one of the major methods used since the start of the study of ecology is the rearrangement of data tables of species by sites, followed by the definition of community types, each characterized by its characteristic species combination (Westhoff & van der Maarel 1978; Becking 1957). Scientists of different schools have different ideas about the characterization of community types and the borders between these types. In vegetation science, for instance, the Scandinavian school and the Zürich–Montpellier school differ markedly, the Scandinavians emphasizing the dominants and the Zürich–Montpellier school giving more weight to characteristic and differential species, which are supposed to have a narrower ecological amplitude and are therefore better indicators for the environment. Cluster analysis is an explicit way of identifying groups in raw data and helps us to find structure in the data. However even if there is a continuous structure in the data, cluster analysis may impose a group structure: a continuum is then arbitrarily partitioned into a discontinuous system of types or classes.
Aims of classification are:
– to give information on the concurrence of species (internal data structure)
– to establish community types for descriptive studies (syntaxonomy and mapping)
Preface to first edition
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This book has been written for the researcher who uses computers to analyse field data on plant and animal communities and their environment. The book originates from a post-graduate course, held at the Wageningen Agricultural University in 1983, 1984 and 1985, for biologists, geographers, agronomists and landscape architects active in nature management, water management, environmental impact assessment and landscape planning. We have included topics that are useful in a wide range of ecological field studies: regression, to model the relation between a particular species and environmental variables, and to detect whether a species can be an indicator for a particular environmental variable; calibration, to infer about the environment from (indicator) species; ordination and cluster analysis, to summarize data on communities of species; and spatial analysis, to model and display the spatial variation in the environment and the communities studied.
A major aim of the book is to bridge the gap between exploratory methods, e.g. ordination and cluster analysis, and methods that allow statistical hypotheses to be tested, such as regression analysis and analysis of variance. This is important because environmental impact studies, for example, require careful design and analysis that is directed to detecting the effect of the impact variable. The by now traditional methods of ordination and cluster analysis are simply not sufficient; they may fail to detect the effect of the impact variable because of natural sources of variation.
1 - Introduction
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Types of ecological research
This book deals with the analysis of ecological data. Before going into that it is wise to define the area in which we are working: Ecology is part of biology and deals with the interrelationships between populations, communities and ecosystems and their environment, but draws on knowledge from many other disciplines, for example climatology, physical geography, agronomy and pedology. Odum (1971) prefers the definition ‘Ecology is the study of structure and function of nature’. He stresses the role of ecosystem research in relation to the use of nature by man. Another definition, emphasizing population dynamics, describes ecology as the scientific study of the interactions that determine the distribution and abundance of organisms in nature (Krebs 1978).
Two types of ecological research are autecological and synecological studies. Autecology is the study of one species in relation to its environment, which comprises other organisms and abiotic factors. Synecology, or community ecology, is the study of many species simultaneously in relation to their environment. The number of species or, more generally, taxa concerned can vary from a few to hundreds. For instance, a study on the Black Woodpecker alone belongs to ḁutecology, while a study on forest bird communities including the Black Woodpecker belongs to synecology.
On a larger spatial scale landscape ecology focuses on spatial patterns and the processes related to them; it considers the development of spatial heterogeneity, and spatial and temporal interactions across heterogeneous landscapes. It attempts to answer questions about land-use and land management.
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Spatial variation in vegetation, soil and precipitation across the Hawkesbury Sandstone Plateau in New South Wales, Australia: an analysis using ordination and trend surfaces
P. A. Burrough
Data collection and analysis
The Hawkesbury Sandstone Plateau, New South Wales, Australia, is an area of great scenic beauty. Through its poor, infertile soils, the plateau has been little developed for agriculture and much of it remains under natural vegetation. This case study was carried out on a small part of the Hawkesbury Sandstone Plateau, measuring roughly 25 km × 10 km from Barren Grounds Nature Reserve in the east, to Fitzroy Falls in the west (Figure 8.1). The eastern boundary of the study area is a steep cliff, where the plateau ends, some 5 km inland from the Tasman Sea. This topography is the cause of intense orographic rainfall, which varies from about 2500 mm per year in the east, falling off to about 1500 mm in the west. Although the plateau is deeply dissected by ravines, its surface is gently rolling, with an average altitude of about 600 m, which does not vary within the area studied. The vegetation, which at the time of the study was largely undisturbed, varies considerably over the area, being a low heath in the east and a closed forest in the west. There is a parallel variation in the soil, from peaty podzols in the east, through leached podzols to leached brown soils in the west.